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Hair color for your skin tone

Before you start looking at latest hair color ideas, it makes sense
first to know if the latest trends will suit you. Best of hair color
trends may be out of sync with our body tone and not look the same as
on those glossy magazines. Most important factor that determines what
hair color will suit you best is the tone of your skin. Actually not
just hair color but anything you wear or your makeup should complement
your skin tone. Hence it is very important that you first know the tone
of your skin. Your skin tone can be either warm or cool. There are few
who may have neutral skin tone. There are many different ways for you
to find out your skin tone. Some are listed below. You can try a few
methods and that should help you determine your skin tone. In general
cool- toned people will look better in bright colors while browns and
oranges will suit warm-toned people. Once you are sure about your skin
tone then you can go ahead and select the best of hair color ideas that
suit your skin tone.

Method 1: Most popular method is to look at the color of your
veins. Veins in the wrist are most likely to be visible. If your veins
look blue or purple you are more likely to have a cool skin tone. If
they are greenish then your skin tone is probably warm.

Method 2: Hold a white cloth like shirt or towel to your
face. Look in the mirror if your face gives a yellowish hue you are
warm toned person and if it gives bluish hue then you are cool toned.
Make sure you have wiped out any makeup before you try this method.

Method 3: Similarly you can try with silver or gold earrings.
Stand in front of the mirror and try both silver and gold earrings. See
which ones suit you more. If answer is silver you are cool toned
otherwise warm toned.

Method 4: This is again stand in front of mirror method.
This time hold a bright pink cloth to your face and then hold a bright
orange colored cloth to your face. Find out which one makes you glow
more. If it is pink you have cool toned skin and if orange then you
have warm toned skin.

If you are the rare lucky one most of above methods will fail and
you will look good in anything. if you glow equally in orange and pink
shades and also both gold and silver look equally good and other
methods as well are inconclusive then you are that lucky one, all
colors will suit you.

Other than the methods applied above you can in general look at your skin traits.

Following are the traits of skin with cool tone:

skin burns easily

cheeks are rosy

Dark brown hue

Have cool bluish or reddish undertones beneath your eyes

Pale skin that almost appears as if it were softly translucent

Medium-pale or pale skin with a pinkish hue around your cheeks

skin is pale, freckled, ebony or ruddy

skin is pale with pink undertones or is dark brown or olive

Olive complexion

Similarly traits for warm toned skin are:

Skin gives golden glow when it tans and it tans easily.

flesh-tones are pale peach

Medium to dark brown with an orange or gold undertone

Pale with peach or gold undertones

Light brown with gold undertones

Skin is brown with faint undertones of pink or gold

Skin is warm golden with yellow undertones

Have lots of freckles or rosy flush

Here are some of the recommended hair colors for people with cool skin tone:

Violet, blue and white colors, which can wash out your natural coloring

Too much ash in your hair as this can make you look older, pale and drawn

Now go ahead and look for the hair color idea that will match best with your skin tone.

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